Iggy Pop famous quotes

Music is life, and life is not a business.
-- Iggy Pop

#Music Is Life #Life Is #Music Is

What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
-- Iggy Pop

#Drinking #Christ #Fisherman

I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
-- Iggy Pop

#Sound #Nails #Offensive

I think that prosecuting some college kid because she shared a file is a lot like sending somebody to Australia 200 years ago for poaching his lordship's rabbit. That's how it must seem to poor people who just want to watch a crappy movie for free after they’ve been working themselves to death all day at Tesco or whatever, you know.
-- Iggy Pop

#Kids #College #Thinking

I'm not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman.
-- Iggy Pop

#Thinking #Feminist #Dresses

If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that’s such a rare gift. It’s underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.
-- Iggy Pop

#People #Giving #Feelings

They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.
-- Iggy Pop

#Boredom #Indifference

I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.
-- Iggy Pop

#Alive #Prison #Spit

The future of rock n roll is Justin Bieber.
-- Iggy Pop

#Rocks #Rock N Roll #Justin

The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
-- Iggy Pop

#Walks #Walking

It is very important what not to do.
-- Iggy Pop

#Important

When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail.
-- Iggy Pop

#Art #Details #Unimportant

I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
-- Iggy Pop

#Focus #Looks #Looking Forward

Curious is a good thing to be, it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.
-- Iggy Pop

#Pay #Unexpected #Curious

What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
-- Iggy Pop

#People #Shows #Antics

When I get up in the morning, I stay nude for three or four hours. If I really feel like getting formal, I'll put on board shorts.
-- Iggy Pop

#Morning #Boards #Three

Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.
-- Iggy Pop

#Skins #Culture #Gimmicks

Miami is nothing like me, and thats why I need to be here - its the opposite. Im practical, where this place is moody, Im stolid in my interior, where this place has a certain flair, and Im materialistic in a sense that this place is fundamentally spiritual - theres a quicksilver quality about this place.
-- Iggy Pop

#Spiritual #Opposites #Quality

Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.
-- Iggy Pop

#Good Day #Blow #Past

Punk rock is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.
-- Iggy Pop

#Heart #Men #Rocks

If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.
-- Iggy Pop

#Pops

Life is just a bag of pot.
-- Iggy Pop

#Philosophy #Bags #Life Is

I'll love you when my eyes are open, I'll love you when my eyes are gone.
-- Iggy Pop

#Love You #Eye #Gone

I'd come home from school alone with those teenage blues and I'd put on Frank Sinatra's It was a very good year. Here was this mature man singing about the cycle of his life, and as a kid I felt the emotions of it already. It has since been a touchstone for me whenever I want to experiment musically.
-- Iggy Pop

#Inspirational #Teenage #Home

I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm.
-- Iggy Pop

#Heart #Expression #Cheetahs

And it's a... it's a term 'Punk Rock' that's based on contempt; it's a term that's based on fashion , style , elitism, satanism , and, everything that's rotten about rock 'n' roll.
-- Iggy Pop

#Fashion #Rocks #Style

I'm glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they're lying.
-- Iggy Pop

#Art #Crazy #Lying

When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.
-- Iggy Pop

#Sex #People #Trying

Really good music isn't just to be heard, you know? It's almost like a hallucination
-- Iggy Pop

#Hallucinations #Music Is #Heard

The key to The Doors is the culture behind the myth.
-- Iggy Pop

#Keys #Doors #Culture

You know, I'm fifty-two now and I call myself a singer. Before I kick it I want to be able to carry a tune in a living room if called upon. Of course, mine come out all dark and twisted and weird.
-- Iggy Pop

#Dark #Two #Able

I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
-- Iggy Pop

#Believe #Boys #Whales

Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.
-- Iggy Pop

#Garden #Yards #Use

I smoked this joint and then it hit me. I thought, what you gotta do is play your own simply blues.
-- Iggy Pop

#Marijuana #Play #Joints

As society has changed, what had formerly been unacceptable has become colourful.
-- Iggy Pop

#Changed

I think that all the years of exposure to amps and electricity has altered my body chemistry.
-- Iggy Pop

#Thinking #Years #Body

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.
-- Iggy Pop

#Mom #Running #Dad

I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.
-- Iggy Pop

#Thinking #Mirrors #Wow

I'm a little bit damaged in about 15 different ways, and it's been nice that no particular damaged area has become a major issue. I'm a more than moderately healthy 65-year-old male who has gotten away with a lot of stuff.
-- Iggy Pop

#Nice #Issues #Years

My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.
-- Iggy Pop

#Art #Light #Parent

Basically, I’m a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
-- Iggy Pop

#Musical #Stuff #Plumbing

Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there’s a current and just stare into the water. I don’t fish, I don’t hunt, I don’t scuba, I don’t spear, don’t boat, don’t play basketball or football – I excel at staring into space. I’m really good at that.
-- Iggy Pop

#Basketball #Football #Play

How am I going to listen to that horrible noise I make without a gram of coke and a couple of double Jack Daniels?
-- Iggy Pop

#Couple #Noise #Coke

Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
-- Iggy Pop

#Musical #Actors #Burden

Nihilism is best done by professionals.
-- Iggy Pop

#Nihilism #Done

If I had to depend on what I actually get from sales, I'd be tending bar between sets,
-- Iggy Pop

#Bars

Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.
-- Iggy Pop

#Sensitive #Understand Me

I am the passenger, I stay under glass. I look through my window so bright, I see the stars come out tonight. I see the bright and hollow sky, over the city's ripped backsides and everything looks good tonight.
-- Iggy Pop

#Travel #Stars #Glasses

I'm bored, I'm the chairman of the board.
-- Iggy Pop

#Work #Bored #Boards

Cigarettes and coffee, man, that's a combination.
-- Iggy Pop

#Coffee #Men #Cigarette

Pussy power's pulling me down, down, down, down. When it's there and I can't have it, I get real real rabid.
-- Iggy Pop

#Real # #Get Real

What the world needs right now... a good, artistic, gothic, terrifying scare
-- Iggy Pop

#Scare #Needs #World

My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.
-- Iggy Pop

#Mom #Nice #Saint

I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
-- Iggy Pop

#Done #Torn #Bother

A lot of young musicians get the money at the wrong time. They get it for something they don’t feel great about, and it’ll make you feel so bad it’ll destroy you and kill you.
-- Iggy Pop

#Musician #Young #Feels

Bowie's a real man, and I'm a real woman - just like Catherine Deneuve.
-- Iggy Pop

#Real #Men #Bowie

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
-- Iggy Pop

#Memories #Survival #Hot

DMT was a gaseous wax that you could smoke that gave you a 20-minute psychedelic high. You'd inhale it. And then when you'd exhale—poof, you'd be high. I saw Buddha, man. I know that sounds like no big deal. But I saw a gigantic holographic Buddha — correct in every way! Buddhas can be very intricate — these drawings that you see in books. Thousands of details were included in this Buddha. Where did they come from? I didn't make them up. I can't even draw, you know? I could barely spell cat, you know? And there it was. And I thought, Wow — the power of the mind, you know?
-- Iggy Pop

#Book #Cat #Men

I'm a travel enthusiast.
-- Iggy Pop

Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.
-- Iggy Pop

#Stuff #Wells

Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show.
-- Iggy Pop

#Giving #Waiting #Looks